03-03-2026, 04:19 PM
I was struck by , "Father slept behind a dark window." To me it was a mistake changing it to, "Father remained in a dark window. " Imagery in the first version speaks of, perhaps, a man hiding a sordid secret life behind a life of normalcy. "Slept" to me has connotations of a bed, i.e. sexual misconduct. Or a dead conscious.
